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    FL-Imm. issues dominate jury selection,against Stuart hosp.

    Immigration issues dominate jury selection in Guatemalan's case against Stuart hospital
    By Melissa E. Holsman
    Thursday, July 2, 2009



    STUART — The often hot button issue of illegal immigration and opinions about undocumented workers living in America dominated much of jury selection Thursday for a trial pitting a brain-damaged Guatemalan man against Martin Memorial Medical Center.

    Since Monday, a pool of about 155 potential jurors has been reduced to 23, with dozens being dismissed for expressing strong opinions against the false imprisonment lawsuit former patient Luis Jimenez and his guardian filed against the hospital after Martin Memorial chartered a jet in 2003 to return him to Guatemala following two years of unpaid medical care.

    The hospital took the action after receiving a court order permitting his return to Guatemala, which an appeals court later determined exceeded the court’s jurisdiction. That ruling prompted attorneys representing Jimenez and his Indiantown guardian, Gaspar Montejo Gaspar, to sue Martin Memorial for money damages.

    Many dismissed jurors said the three-week trial would create an economic hardship, but the majority also expressed a range of negative opinions against illegal immigration, including characterizing the lawsuit as unfair and some saying their beliefs would prevent them from being impartial.

    A man dismissed Thursday said he felt everyone deserved medical care and the ability to make a living, but when it came to access to the courts, “U.S, citizens should come first.â€
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    That is great to see these American citizens speaking up for what they believe has truely become a major problem in this country.

    These ILLEGAL ALIENS,as I have said before,want to complain about conditions here in the USA for themselves and family,but damn it they would in NO WAY get the same kind of hospital treatments in their own countries! Let alone a higher paying job,or access to government funds and relief,or get free medical for their ANCHOR BABIES,unemployment checks(yes,I said unemployment checks), aide from the federally funded WIC program,let us NOT FORGET LOANS from banks for housing and cars and trucks and the use of our education systems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I had gotten this following in an e-mail: Some of the articles are old ones I know but gives a very good idea what is happening in this country and to YOUR TAX DOLLARS. And of course we can mention all the BAILOUT MONEY to the people who have caused this mess were in now!

    Subject: WHY ARE WE BANKRUPT???


    Our Congressmen are leading us around by our noses . . . and we allow them to do it..





    Astounding and infuriating. Why isn't this in the papers? Please read and pass it on.

    WHY ARE WE BANKRUPT?


    Informative, and mind boggling!



    You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

    Boy, was I confused.. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

    I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts:


    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

    Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.0..html

    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

    Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

    6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

    Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

    9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC RI PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US

    Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

    Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht <http://tinyurl.com/t9sht>

    12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period..'

    Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/ ... tation.pdf

    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.

    Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>

    14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'

    Verify at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml <http://ww w.drdsk.com/articleshtml>

    The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.


    Are we THAT stupid? YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!



    If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every elected representative in Washington , D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.
    "When you have knowledge,you have a responsibility to do better"_ Paula Johnson

    "I did then what I knew to do. When I knew better,I did better"_ Maya Angelou

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